| Type: | Bishop | ||||||||
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend | ||||||||
| Sofie Petersen | |||||||||
| Bishop Of: | Bishop of Greenland | ||||||||
| Term Start: | 1995 | ||||||||
| Term End: | 2020 | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Kristian Mørch | ||||||||
| Successor: | Paneeraq Siegstad Munk | ||||||||
| Birth Name: | Sofie Bodil Louise Lisbeth Petersen | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 23 November 1955 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Maniitsoq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark | ||||||||
| Religion: | Lutheranism | ||||||||
| Nationality: | Greenlandic | ||||||||
| Education: | Theology | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Copenhagen, 1986 | ||||||||
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Sofie Petersen (born 1955) is a Greenlandic Lutheran bishop.[1] She was Bishop of Greenland from 1995 to 2020.
She was born on 23 November 1955 in Maniitsoq, Greenland. She studied theology and graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1986. On 28 May 1995, at the age of 39, Petersen was ordained as the Bishop of Greenland in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark.[2]
She was ordained at Hans Egede Church, the cathedral of Greenland in the presence of Queen Margrethe II.[3] She is the second Inuit bishop and the second woman to become a bishop in the Danish Lutheran church.[4]
Petersen is an outspoken advocate for climate justice.[5] She worked closely with the Greenland's government to ensure the law would allow same-sex couples to marry in churches and other religious buildings.[6] She retired in December 2020.